As I close in on 25M points, it seems my newest 570 is crashing and burning. Any load that shows up on the second card, I get an instant black or garbled screen and the system locks solid. Here's where I'm reminded how much of a pain water cooling can be. For me to test the card, I need to rip apart and reconfigure the loop multiple times! Oh well

Hmm, kinda of a bummer but just found out my P4's are toast. unless i get a network card.
I got the AMD 3300+ to work however, which is better than my p4's @1.54 gflop/ per one core it has.... my i2500k is only 3.54 gflop to give you reference, per core.

but on the plus side, i got a 24 port switch box 24 computers.... stack them high? hope it doesn't get too toasty or cops thermal scan my home, then bust my door open in a sting operation for increase in "heat and power usage"

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Originally Posted by Angrybutcher

As I close in on 25M points, it seems my newest 570 is crashing and burning. Any load that shows up on the second card, I get an instant black or garbled screen and the system locks solid. Here's where I'm reminded how much of a pain water cooling can be. For me to test the card, I need to rip apart and reconfigure the loop multiple times! Oh well

that sucks, but early congrats on the 25m!

It kinda sucks that so much points is sitting in pending points lol.
i have about 40k in one day worth of pending points and only 20k profit.

ever since i joined colatz, my ppd has increased drastically o___O
instead of reaching 1m at 222 days, i can now reach it in 50 days.Edited by kyismaster - 1/11/12 at 11:36am

As I close in on 25M points, it seems my newest 570 is crashing and burning. Any load that shows up on the second card, I get an instant black or garbled screen and the system locks solid. Here's where I'm reminded how much of a pain water cooling can be. For me to test the card, I need to rip apart and reconfigure the loop multiple times! Oh well

That sucks because I probably have something close to what you have with 6950's instead of 570's.

ever since i joined colatz, my ppd has increased drastically o___O
instead of reaching 1m at 222 days, i can now reach it in 50 days.

That is the thing, not all the projects are equal. During the BGB events most people crunch the high point projects and during the rest of the month they either do the projects of the month or whatever floats their boat.

i'm a few days away from 550 million. does that count? imagine the power usage that added up to that total....

$12949771240? xD!
- just added another computer to my loop ftw.

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Originally Posted by magic8192

That is the thing, not all the projects are equal. During the BGB events most people crunch the high point projects and during the rest of the month they either do the projects of the month or whatever floats their boat.

I thought this when I first started doing the BGB events, but prizes are not based on your total 48 hour point total "rank". As long as you hit the threshold for that prize, you're entered in a drawing.

1) Bring attention to BOINC and the OCN BOINC team and thereby possibly recruit new members.
2) To get a "Team" points boost.
3) To encourage "Espirit de Corp" within the team.

That is why the prizes are given out from a drawing that one "Qualifies" for. That way Joe/Jane Doe with the dual Athlon 2.4GHz system has an equal chance to get a prize with Super Bob with the quad XEON hex core server system. Even laptops of older vintage have a chance to qualify.

And, from my perspective, every core crunching is helping humanity in some way and worthy and we can leave the wallet equation out of it to keep things friendly.

I think the system is the best friendly compromise possible...

And, we always keep in mind this "IS" OCN... this is home of overclocked FAST computers... so the greatest majority of people can crunch 50k points in 48 hrs...one way or another...